Re: [Fwd: Drosophila sorting and viability]

From: sstouden@thelinks.com
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 01:53:55 EST


any biological reason why Mosquito viable cells would take up PI ?

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 ann.atzberger@talk21.com wrote:

> 
> you can sort them much the same as any other cell line. I only use a viablity marker
> where there is a high number of dead cells, otherwise discriminate on FSC.SSC... but
you
> can definitely use PI and very likely 7-AAD- same as mammalian cell lines.
> Only weird thing I've come across was with Mosquito cells, viable cells also took up
PI,
> these were sorted (had too, they were 100% pos)proved not to be dead cells as they grew
> in culture.
> 
> regards
> Ann Atberger
> 
> 
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